Card holder



Jan; 29, 1924. 1,482;'341

I O. ARNOLD CARD HOLDER 'Filed May 11. 1923 NNNNNN O R I Patented Jan.29, 1924.

PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR ARNOLD, OF WOODRIDG'E, NEW JERSEY.

cam) HOLDER.

Application filed Kay 11,

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, OSCAR Anson), a citizenof the United States, residing at Woodridge, in the county of Bergen andState of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in CardHolders, of which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to special supports, and has for its object theprovision of novel means for holding a card, sign, picture, or otherflat sheet like article upon a wall or other support without making anyholes through the cardor other article, the device being furthermore ofsuch a'nature that a card of any size may be held'in such a way that itmay be moreover easily removed at will. v 7

An important object is the provision of a holding means ofthis characterwhich will be very simple and inexpensive in manufacture, highlyefficient in use, durable in service and a general improvement in theart.

With the above and other objects and advantages in view the inventionconsists in the details of construction to be hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a show card mounted upon a wall bymeans of my device,

Figure 2 is a erspective view of one of my holding mem ers alone,

Figure 3 is a vertical section therethrough,

Figure 4 is a cross section. Figure 5 is a view of the blank from whichit is formed.

Figure 6 is a face view of one of the holdin members.

' eferring more particularly to the drawings the letter A represents ashow card, picture or other article of a flat sheet llke nature which itis desired to support upon a wall or other surface. In carrying out myinvention I make use of four holders to be 1928. Serial No. 638,337.

gles to each other so as to engage against adjacent edges of the card orsheet at the corner thereof. In forming the holder from a single pieceof material, it is to be noted that the sheet of material is in thenature of an elongated strip formed at one edge intermediate the endsthereof with a tong 13. This tong is bent back until its free edgeregisters with the adjacent edge of the sheet and is then mashed downflat. Intermediate its ends the sheet is folded over upon the line 1 1and mashed down with the free edge of this bent end arranged at a pointspaced considerably from the opposite end of the sheet. Prior to thisbending a penetrating member is provided and mounted in place and Whilethis penetrating member might vary in its details, it is hereillustrated as being of an ordinary thumb tack 15 which is pressedthrough the sheet and which is held in place by the folding of one endthereof as above described. Subsequent to these operations, the ton 13is bent at ri ht angles to the body o the device to de no the abovedescribed flange 11 while that portion of the sheet located between thefree end thereof and the end of the folded over portion is bent at rightangles and then rebent again at right angles to provide the abovedescribed flange 12.

In using my devices they are simply placed upon a wall or other supportat the desired points to receive the corners of the card or other sheetto be displayed and held and when pressure is applied the penetratingmember will be forced into the wall or ot er support and will operate tomaintain the device firmly in place. The flanges 11 are so disposed asto engage against the side edges of the card or sheet, while the flanges12 overhang the top and bottom edges, though of course the reversearrangement might be followed if such should be found preferable therebeing no restriction as to the exact manner of use. It is to be notedthat a very important feature is the fact that there are no holes oranything else to deface the card, picture or the like and that the cardmay be easily removed from or inserted within the holders in a verysimple manner.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of theinvention it is not depart from the spirit of the invention or the scopeof the subjoined claims.

Having thus described my invention 1 claim:

1. Means for holding a fiat sheet against a support, comprising aplurality of members adapted to have the corners of the sheet engagedtherewith, each member being formed from a single piece of resilientmetal bent intermediate its ends to definea main portion having one edgebent and rebent to define a flange and having an adjacent end bent overto define an overhanging flange, other portion of the sheet being bowedtoward thecenter of the main portion and having its free end engagedbeneath said overhanging flange, and a penetrating member carried bysaid main portion, the flat sheet having its corner l'orced between saidoverhanging flangeand the free end portion engaged therebeneath.

2. Means for holding a flat sheet against a support, comprising aplurality of members adapted to have the corners of the sheet engagedtherewith, each member being formed from a single piece of resilientmetal bent intermediate its ends to define a main portion having oneedge bent and rebent to define a flange and having an adjacent end bentover to define an overhanging flange, the other portionof the sheetbeing bowed toward the,cente-r of the main portion and having its freeend engaged beneath said overhanging flange and a penetrating me1nbcrcarried by said main portion, the flat sheet having its corner forcedbetween said overhanging flange and the free endportion engagedtherebeneath, the penetrating member being of a tack like nature andhaving its head engaged between the two portions of said member.

3. A device of the character described formed from asingle piece ofmetalbent intermediate its ends to define a main portion and a springtongue, the main portion having a flange at one edge and an overhangingflange at an adjacent edge, said tongue being bowed toward the mainportion and engaged beneath the overhanging fl,ange,. and,

a headed fastener projecting through said main portion and having itshead engaged by the tongue.

In testimony whereof I aflix masi OSCAR A OLD. 7

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